China Begins FMeXtra™ Digital Radio Broadcasts
April 13, 2007, San Jose, CA. Digital Radio
Ex[ress (DRE) announced today that Hunan Broadcasting Company commenced digital
radio broadcasting with DRE’s FMeXtra digital radio system. Hunan Broadcasting
with 7 FM radio stations serves Hunan Province with an estimated population
of 100million. Hunan Broadcasting’s 57kw FM station in Changsha, capital
city of Hunan, is broadcasting its regular FM programming simultaneously with
two FMeXtra digital channels of stereo quality programming. Mr. Derek Kumar,
DRE’s VP Engineering, indicated that the FMeXtra digital broadcasting
came up effortlessly and in less than 1 hour Hunan Broadcasting’s world
class station was on the air transmitting quality stereo programming. DRE
indicated that their recently announced alliance with TCL, one of China’s
major consumer electronics group, provides the foundation to bring FMeXtra
to a large number of China’s radio stations in the coming months.






